Inscribed 'First idea for a painting'.
Black chalk with highlights on buff paper.
Squared with red and blue pencil.
Tags: Hubert Arthur Finney chalk drawing pencil Portrait children interiors leisure life drawing portraits women
Provenance: The Artist's Studio
Finney initially studied painting with Amy Katherine Browning and etching with Eric Gill, winning in 1927 a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where he studied under William Rothenstein. Horton, Houthuesen, Ososki and Freedman were amongst his friends at the college. In 1929 after graduation he took up a travelling scholarship to Rome.
